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Re: Problems booting netbsd DOM0 (and domU!)



At Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:49:47 -0800, "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Problems booting netbsd DOM0 (and domU!)
>
> Which brings me to realize "dom0=msr_relaxed" on the Xen command line
> should have allowed the older XEN3_DOM0 kernel to boot, and I thought I
> had tried that but it didn't work (though perhaps I got the syntax wrong).

I can now confirm that "dom0=pv,msr-relaxed=1" on the Xen command line in
/boot.cfg will allow an older unpatched NetBSD XEN3_DOM0 kernel to boot!

This should greatly ease the upgrade path for anyone trying to update
Xen on a machine still running legacy NetBSD kernels.

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